Guide for band-saws



(No Model.)

M. F. LARSH.

, v GUIDE POR BANl') SAWS. No. 365,441'. PatentedJune 28, 1897;

N. PETERS, Pqmqnuiugnpler. washington D. C.

UNrTED STATES PATENTv OFFICE.

y MIRENUS F. LARSH, yOF DES MOINES, IOWA.

GUIDE FOR BAND-sAws.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,441, dated June 28, 1887.

Application led February 24, 1887. Serial No. 228,644. (No-model.) l

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, `MIRENUs F. LAnsn, a citizen of the United States of America, and aAresident of Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa, have invented an Improved; Guide for Band-Saws, of which the following is a specification.

' My object is to provide a saw-guide that can claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings,'in which* y 'Figure 1 shows a half-section of my guidewheel combined with an adjustable bearer and frame. Fig. 2 is an inside'face View of one of the detachable collars placed, upon the ad `instable bearing and an elastic packingfring placed around the central opening of the collar. Fig. ,3 is a view showing the wheel, the bearing, and the frame combined and ready to be applied to a sawing-machine in a common way as required to allow the endless saw to pass through one of the continuous grooves in the periphery of the wheel.

A is `the hollow hub, and B an ,integral circular flange at its center. v

C is a minor flange on the center of the pe riphery of the flange B.

d and d are V shaped continuons grooves of different width and depth at the opposite sides of the fiang'e C.

No. lis a collar having a flange, f, at the circumference of its inside face that overlaps the flange B and extends toward the side face of the flange C. No. 2 is a corresponding collar adapted to be placed on the opposite sides of the flanges B and C, as clearly shown in Fig. 1.

g g are rubber packing-rings placed between the fianges B and the collars. Screws 7L are inserted in coinciding perforations and screwseats formed in the collars and flange in such a manner that the annular grooves in the periphery of the wheel can be readily widened or narrowed by simply operating the screws as required to suit saws of different thickness. H is a detach-able wheel-bearer in the form of alpin having a head, H', at one end tted in the bore of the hub A, and a corresponding bore in a frame, J, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, to be clamped fast in the frame by means of a set-screw, k. The frame J, `carrying the guide-wheel, having parallel continuous grooves in its periphery, is adj ustably connected with the frame of a sawing-machine, as required, to bring the said parallel grooves in proper positions relative to differentsaws at different times. By simply reversing the position of the guide- Wheel on its bearing H, the positions of the grooves are changed relative to the saw.

I claim as my inventionl. The wheel composed of' the hub A, having flanges B and C and grooves d and d', and collars Nos. l and 2, having flanges f, adjustably and detachably connected with the flanged hub A by means of screws and elastic packing, substantially as shown and described, for thc purposes stated.

2. The combination of the hub A, having flanges B and C and grooves d and d', the collars Nos. l and 2, having fianges f, and the bearing H, having a head, H', for the purposes stated.

3. The improved saw-guide, comprising a flanged hub having continuous grooves in the periphery of its flange, collars having fiangcs projecting laterally from their circumferences, a bolt or bearinghaving a head and fitted in the bore of the hub, and a frame having a bore to admit the end of the said bolt or bearing, and a set-screw to clamp said bolt fast in the bore of said frame, constructed and combinedA to operate in the manner set forth.

- MIBENUS F. 'LARSEL Witnesses:

RooKIE A. LARsH, THOMAS G. ORWIG. 

